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authorMahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>2019-07-01 14:38:49 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2019-07-01 19:34:46 -0700
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parentnet: ethernet: broadcom: bcm63xx_enet: Remove unneeded memset (diff)
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loopback: create blackhole net device similar to loopack.
Create a blackhole net device that can be used for "dead" dst entries instead of loopback device. This blackhole device differs from loopback in few aspects: (a) It's not per-ns. (b) MTU on this device is ETH_MIN_MTU (c) The xmit function is essentially kfree_skb(). and (d) since it's not registered it won't have ifindex. Lower MTU effectively make the device not pass the MTU check during the route check when a dst associated with the skb is dead. Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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